![]() ![]() My line of inquiry takes into consideration both Dostoevsky’s Christian worldview, as well as what he perceived to be our most characteristic state of being-in-the-world we are ‘transitional’ creatures. ![]() How Dostoevsky’s characters inhabit space, or are positioned towards specific sites and spatial configurations, reveals how they form their ontological connection with their narrative worlds. ![]() Given that space is a priori, I propose that space is of ontological primacy in Dostoevsky’s fiction space is the ground and foundation upon which all moral and existential action, is performed. Drawing upon Henri Lefebvre’s tripartite order of space, (physical, social and mental) I examine spaces and spatial motifs and configurations in Dostoevsky’s fiction at multiple levels of representation, with particular attention paid to mental (or psychological and symbolic) space. ![]() This study is an investigation of space and spatial motifs in Dostoevsky’s post- Siberian fiction. ![]()
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